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The true origin of the Vlachs can be worked out, however, from the linguistic evidence. The Vlach-Romanian language (which was a single language until the two main forms of it began to diverge in the early middle ages) has a large number of special features in common with Albanian. These include fundamental matters of grammar and syntax, a number of special idioms, and a core vocabulary of words connected with pastoral life. Albanian, the one survivor of the languages of the Illyrian tribes, also contains a huge number of words borrowed from Latin, indicating close contact with a Latinized population throughout the Roman period. A combination of historical linguistics, the study of place-names and the history of the Roman Empire yields the fairly certain conclusion that the heartland where both these languages developed was an area stretching from northern Albania through Kosovo and south-central Serbia: it may also have included parts of northern Macedonia and western Bulgaria. Most of the Romanized and Latin-speaking population of this area (whose version of Latin was influenced by their own language, Illyrian) was dispersed, destroyed or assimilated by the invasions of the dark ages, especially those of the Slavs. A remnant which practised pastoralism was able to survive in the mountains, unaffected by the Slavs' takeover of settled agriculture; and in the more remote mountains (especially those of northern Albania) it was also in close contact with an even earlier remnant, which still spoke the Illyrian language, albeit a version of Illyrian which had become heavily infused with Latin after centuries of contact. That is the explanation accepted by nearly all the independent scholars who have studied this question; unfortunately the issue has been bedevilled by misplaced national pride on the part of Romanian writers, who cannot accept that the first speakers of Romanian came from south of the Danube.

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Since this northern Albanian and southern Serbian region was the original heartland of the Vlachs, it is not surprising that they should have spread out into the nearby uplands of Hercegovina from an early period. From there they moved northwards through the mountainous Dalmatian hinterland, where they are found tending flocks (and bringing them down to the coastal lands in the winter) as early as the twelfth century. There are many references to them in the records of Ragusa and Zadar from the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries. Some of these pastoral Vlachs also penetrated as far as central Bosnia, where medieval place-names in the regions of Sarajevo and Travnik indicate their presence: Vlahinja, Vlaskovo, Vlasic. And many Vlach words connected with pastoral life were absorbed into Bosnian dialects of Serbo-Croat: trze, a late-born lamb, from the Vlach tirdziu, for example, or zarica, a type of cheese, from the Vlach zara. This last word is in fact a version of the Albanian word dhalle, "buttermilk" -- one of many details pointing to the pastoral symbiosis between Vlachs and Albanians, which continued to operate over a long period.
Most of these early Dalmatian and Bosnian Vlachs seem to have led quiet, secluded lives in the mountains. But in Hercegovina itself, where there was a large concentration of Vlachs, a more military and aggressive tradition developed. There are many complaints in Ragusan records of raids by these neighboring Vlachs during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Vlachs of Hercegovina were horse-breeders and caravan-leaders who, when they were not engaged in plunder, grew rich out of the trade between Ragusa and mines of Bosnia; some of them were probably responsible for commissioning the imposing Bosnian stone tombstones or stecci decorated with carvings of horsemen. Their trading links to the east must have brought them more into contact with the Vlach peoples of Serbia and Bulgaria, who had long traditions of military activity in the armies of the Byzantine emperors and Serbian kings.

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Shpata, as a Lab you should know there are rules you should obey! Isnt it? Mehmeti is dead, little boy!f

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Shpata

go on. Next time probably you bring something better, because above apart of your title there is nothing to say what you claim.

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canaris

that was not a good judgement!

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He would like to post something he makes up, and that is choice, I have no problem with that. What he cant do, is posting about other nations in a forum that is for Albanians.

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He knows that very well, and he doest it based on the same comlexity people like Dijedon have. They see Albanian forum as something where they are protected, untouched from foreign neighbors they hate so much.

You cannot be easy with arrogant stubborn people!

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Albania that produces the most famous gangsters, mafious etc etc do not like to be told what to do.

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As you can see Labs are not able to make history. They are able only for Fecor and Mehmet Shehu type of terror/intrigues/servilism....

however, these labs cannot realise that Serbs in Bosnia entered history with that name and so are known today. They are not living in regions with other nations toponymy etc

like the lost greeko-slavo-vlachs of Laberia (Selenica, Drashovica, Zvernec, Kamenica etc etc) or Zagoria

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come on...be proud of your messed up ancestry.

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What's the funniest is that thesepeople think being a Lab is better than being a lost greeko-slavo (macedonian)-vlach of what was known as Epir....

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I dont uderstand why are really so anxious about caucas origin? what if you really were from there what would you do then? matters are not settled yet!

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One things is clear! you arent what you claim to be!

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